track event

noun

1. a competition in athletics, such as relay running or sprinting, that takes place on a running track

Example Sentences

World Athletics then insisted that for track events from 400m up to the mile, DSD athletes must reduce their testosterone levels in order to be eligible.

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They said B.P.J. was eager to participate in sports but was “too slow to compete in the track events” on the girls team.

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World Athletics, for example, only allows athletes with DSD to compete in female track events if they reduce their testosterone levels.

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But while apes tended to track events like human adults, six-month-old human babies did not, instead paying attention mostly to the background.

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In spring of last year, two trans athletes withdrew from state high school track-and-field finals after facing a torrent of online and in-person vitriol for their participation in women’s track events.

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